Badgers Hosting Western Illinois

I'm liking this club....young guys need to work on D but there is a lot to look forward to.

Iverson is a rebounding DEMON.

 They are terrible defensively.

 

Hope they can pull this out, but another WI team that has long stretches of no points.

Wow.

W...t...f

Hey, they were 8-20 last year.. no reason for alarm.   

 

 

Not looking good, it's early... it's disgusting, but that's a game that can set a bad tone for a season.

Shocking loss - that's all to say

Yikes......Western Illinois??  OMGosh...... lotsa work to do indeed.

 

For the second consecutive season, the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team unfurled an NCAA Final Four banner prior to its opener.

Unfortunately, the similarities between last season and this season ended once the banner took its place in the Kohl Center rafters.

A year ago, the only question about the Badgers was whether they would make it back to the Final Four. After losing only sharpshooter Ben Brust to graduation, they were experienced, deep and talented.

When UW opened against Western Illinois on Friday night, everything had changed. After the Badgers lost five of their top seven players, including two NBA first-round draft picks, coach Bo Ryan didn’t even know what to expect day to day in practice much less how his players would perform once the games began.

 

Full article here:  http://host.madison.com/wsj/sp...29-c5a74deaa031.html

They had no business allowing so many points in the paint to a DII team.  Bo is right- they have a ways to go

Worst defense I've seen in a long time.  Youth will do that

I was really exited about the young guys. It will take them a while, but by midseason they will be playing some good ball. There is a lot of talent on this team, but it is so young there will be a lot of losses early.

 

Remember Bo's first team?

Much like Marquette they have some really intriguing young players.  It will be interesting to see how they develop and I agree they could be teams you don't want to play by end of the season.

Still, given how dominant UW has been at Kohl Center that's about as shocking of a loss I can recall in Bo's tenure.   Good news is there is no way he will tolerate the lax play on D.

IIRC....

 

A few years back they were beaten in a shocker by North Dakota State Fighting Sioux (I think that's the team name anyway) at the Kohl Center.  (or are they the Bison).

 

But this is a bigger shock since it's a D-II team.  I think NDSU just entered D-I at the time, however.